Google image search represents a opportunity to build traffic through Google and is especially relevant to online retailing companies.
When using images on a site, follow the following best practise to maximise the potential for image search inclusion:
Use descriptive alt and title attribute tags for each image
Caption images using adjacent text for context
Ensure image file uses [...]
Google Image Search with two unique content filters. These two features will help you in finding the right image.
First filter will show images from Google News and second filter uses face detection technology to find images and photos.
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Google Image Search with two unique content filters. These two features will help you in finding the right image.
First filter will show images from Google News and second filter uses face detection technology to find images and photos.
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Image search is evolving quickly. Today you don’t even need to use words to search images. Now you can use colors!. That’s right you can search images by color.
Let’s search the web for an autumn-like palette (yellow, red, brown) using the following 3 services. Let’s see how the search results are like.
1. PicItUp
PicItUp is a [...]
We added Photobucket to the search for background images! Go check it out!
TIP: If an image is less than 200px by 200px, it will not be stretched out to fit the screen. You can go in step 3. More Options and choose Repeat: “BOTH” and you will see the image tiled over the whole screen. [...]
What is the next big privacy issue? Image Search. But not the current image search, which actually searches through the file names and meta data, but actual, pattern matching image search.The issue of pattern matching between images regardless of perspective and color has been an academic issue for a long time, and has found application in OCR systems, fingerprint identification and some high cost
Idée Inc. will launch a image search engine TinEye. TinEye does for images what Google does for text.
Just as you are familiar with entering text in Google to find web pages that contain that text, using TinEye, you enter an image to find pages where that particular image (and modified versions of it) appears.
The service, which is called TinEye, could be a blessing for publishers, brand
Google researchers, Shumeet Baluja and Yushi Jing, presented a paper titled ‘PageRank for product image search’ at the international World Wide Web Conference held in Beijing last week. They say that their new technology will help improve image search results, and these results will be more relevant to customer needs.
At present search engines rank [...]
Tired to typing in your text? well Vodafone introduced Image Search! at the Cebit trade show in Germany, Vodafone is demonstrating Otello, a search engine that uses images as input.
Instead of entering text, now users can send pictures via MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) from their mobile phones and it will return the information relevant to [...]
We tried searching the respective search providers name as a search query, in their on image search engines. First, we tried searching "google" in Google Image Search. And the image search results revealed that Google knows well, about what is Google. [Search Google in Google ]Have a look at the screen shot below to see the Google search results.Then, we tried searching "yahoo" in Yahoo Image Search. And the first image in the search result was bit embarrassing. But we got the Yahoo logo and Yahoo Messenger logo as second and third image. [Search Yahoo in Yahoo]You can see the image of the search result below.Then, we went with searching "microsoft" in Live Image Search. The search result gave a NICE Windows Vista wallpaper as the first image. Looks cool!!!. [ Search Microsoft in Live ].Refer the search result image below.If you are interested in exploring further, you can try the same with Altavista Image search.Suggested readings Create Cool Web 2.0 style buttons online without Pho
BigStockPhoto.com announced today, the launch of its powerful new search engine technology — the first in a series of new features the stock image company plans to roll out in the coming months. BigStockPhoto’s continued growth spurt over the last year and key feedback from its active community of users and contributors inspired the complete redesign of its search engine. The result: powerful and easier searches, superior result accuracy, and ‘lightning quick’ speed.
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Face Recognition in Image Search Engines
Search Engines are getting better as everyday passes by, and we see new features added to give users the best experience and satisfaction ever. Face Recognition is a technology that has been adapted by search engines like Google, Live Search and Exalead in a move to tune up their image search results.
Now you could restrict image searches to only human faces, rather than getting more of irrelevant images.
Face Recognition Search in Google
Google silently added a face search operator a month or two ago, and appending the operator to the image search URL will list only photos of people, rather than listing all kinds of images.
For example, a normal image search for the keywords Neil Armstrong brings up the following results:
On the contrary, if you add the &imgtype=fac
Chris Pearson over at Pearsonified has an article on how to get out of the sandbox by taking advantage of Google’s image search.
I saw this article about a month ago and was surprised that I was doing the “half” correct thing when using images on my blog posts. I thought of sharing it with you a month ago but, of course I tested it first. Just for sure!
Even though I’m not so good to these SEO stuffs, you might as well give this tip a try. It just needs a little effort.
But take note that image search that doesn’t convert that much
Here’s what I did before that I thought was the best thing t do to my images:
Put some alt tag
Specify the width
Specify the height
And the source (Of Course!)
I bet that you’re doing the same! You might as well change those pictures and add the title tag. Just like in links, the text you input in the title tags will show when someone hovers on the image.
As Chris Specified, you should use the following tags to your images.
The Alt Tag
T
The things that Google comes up with are pretty scary. The Street View on Google Maps is pretty cool, but it’s starting to feel a lot like Big Brother around here. It appears that when searching for images you now have the ability to get pictures of just faces by adding this tid-bit to your search, “&imgtype=face”. Voila, stalking on the internet has gotten that much easier. I apologize if anyone has an epileptic seizure because of the image.For example, a regular Google Image Search for "paris" returns lots of photos of the city. The modified search returns lots of photos of Paris Hilton. The same technique works for "Trapani" - a regular search turns up photos of the Sicilian city of Trapani, the modified version gives you photos of people's faces with the last name Trapani. Freaky!
If you love Google's search and want to help them improve their image search out of the kindness of your heart, then you can! Google has created something called the Google Image Labeler whereby you will be paired up with someone else using the service and both of you will give "labels" to a set of pictures, which is basically describing the picture in words.It's kinda like a video game because while it's showing you the picture, it also tells you how many labels your partner has come up with, so then you feel to need to think faster! And you get a score also at the end and get ranked with the other hundreds of people participating in the service!http://images.google.com/imagelabeler/
Many people hate the new design of Google Image Search and want the old one back. It's pretty easy to do that, as Google shows the classic design if you disable JavaScript. But here's a way to disable JavaScript only for Google Image Search.FirefoxGo to your Firefox profile. For Windows XP, go to Start/Run and type:%appdata%/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/Then click on your profile's folder and open user.js in Notepad (if you can't find it, create a blank text file named user.js). Add these lines at the end of the file:user_pref("capability.policy.policynames", "nojs");user_pref("capability.policy.nojs.sites", "http://images.google.com");user_pref("capability.policy.nojs.javascript.enabled", "noAccess");You should replace images.google.com with your localized version (for example: images.google.co.uk).Then restart Firefox.OperaIf you use Opera 9 and you want to return to the old design:* go to Google Images* right-click and select "Edit site preferences"* go to the Scripting tab* uncheck
Many people hate the new design of Google Image Search and want the old one back. It's pretty easy to do that, as Google shows the classic design if you disable JavaScript. But here's a way to disable JavaScript only for Google Image Search.FirefoxGo to your Firefox profile. For Windows XP, go to Start/Run and type:%appdata%/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/Then click on your profile's folder and open user.js in Notepad (if you can't find it, create a blank text file named user.js). Add these lines at the end of the file:user_pref("capability.policy.policynames", "nojs");user_pref("capability.policy.nojs.sites", "http://images.google.com");user_pref("capability.policy.nojs.javascript.enabled", "noAccess");You should replace images.google.com with your localized version (for example: images.google.co.uk).Then restart Firefox.OperaIf you use Opera 9 and you want to return to the old design:* go to Google Images* right-click and select "Edit site preferences"* go to the Scripting tab* uncheck
For a very long time webmasters have been neglecting ISO, I feel the way the search world is forming this is going to be a major part to play along with SEO and SMO.
Image search has grown leaps and bounds over the past few years and maybe in the near ...
